Berthe Morisot painted this scene at one of the happiest moments of her
life; it depicts her husband Eugene Manet (the brother of Edouard) and
their young child Julie. Done with fantasy colouring, this work radiates
with joy and tenderness.

The difficulty in reproducing this work is in the dashing brush-strokes,
wet-in-wet or wet-over-dry, but that needed to be applied with the same
speed as Morisot's strokes in order to succeed. Morisot's speed, and
also the fact that she left her paintings in a state that appears
unfinished, makes the aspect of her originals always a particularly
exciting challenge to try to reproduce.

This is one of the key works in her career, for it wonderfully displays
her

unique
technique to it's best as well as the entire and beautiful colour-
palette for which she was so well-known.